Thu 31 Dec
Media Releases: Publication date announced for Lord Justice Jackson’s final report of his civil litigation cost review
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The press will no doubt have it that the story of this game was the failure of Chelsea to increase their lead at the top of the table – an opportunity missed. Perhaps a dig at Ancelotti for not even being able to beat poor old West Ham.
Nothing of the sort. This was the freezing afternoon when West Ham rediscovered their passion, their pattern and their confidence. They went toe to toe with the best team in the country and were desperately unlucky not to come away with all three points.
Diamanti emerged as the 90-minute creative force that we had hoped he might be. Added to that was the sustained excellence of Franco as lone striker and the best performance in midfield I’ve seen from Mark Noble in about two years. Parker was strength personified and even Kovac played the second half like a man who had adjusted to the pace of the Premiership.
In defence Tomkins was pressed into action after Gabbidon tweaked, jarred or pulled something after 18 mins – and he didn’t let the side down at all, often being left against Drogba and standing up the challenge like a veteran.
All the bravery would have come to nought though if it had not been for the infectious composure of Matthew Upson, returning from injury to captain the side
So I have one message to the spivs in the West Ham boardroom. Don’t sell Upson in January (or anyone else) if you want still to have a Premiership football club to overvalue.
I read on Twitter recently that Charles Christian had invested in MacSpeech Dictate and I was persuaded to give it a try.
Many years ago we invested in an expensive IBM system but quickly lost the will to live when, despite many attempts, the software failed to learn.
What does appear to have improved dramatically is the ability of the headsets to ignore background noise and learn quickly from the training modules.
What must also help is the increase in processing power and the amount of RAM in modern computers. What is taking a bit of getting used to is sitting staring into space while attempting to compose, as opposed to staring blankly at the screen with my fingers poised over the keyboard. No doubt I’ll get used to this in time.
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It’s only when you start using something to meet a real need that you work out how good or bad it is.
We’ve been engaged in a major project for the last couple of months – of which more might be revealed in time (client confidentiality permitting).
One thing that became unwieldy very quickly was the exchange of documents with our client as attachments to email. Too many to keep tabs on with some files being too fat for our Managed Exchange host.
I thought a quick fix might be Dropbox. I didn’t realise at the time how valuable it would become – vital in fact. Version control, alerts when files have been updated, flexible sharing controls, dead easy to grow file folder structures, back up – it’s got the lot. And it’s free for up to 2GB of storage.
How long this public cloud application will be free at entry level will be interesting to monitor. It’s brilliant and deserves to become a commercial success.
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